A quick guided tour of some of the day's the most important or interesting (or both) Washington-related stories.

The Bush Administration appears to be giving Iraq Study Group proposals it first ignored a second look as the White House moves towards accepting benchmarks for the Iraq government that would penalize that government by restricting funding if it failed to meet certain goals. U.S. officials will also meet with Iran in the hope that neighboring state can help stabilize the situation.

Illegal immigrant advocates and opponents both oppose the new immigration-reform agreement for different reasons, making the future of the proposal very uncertain. Advocates oppose changes that would make it harder to unite immigrant families while opponents view the proposal as offering amnesty.

Republicans have fallen behind Democrats in exploiting the Web for their candidates. No GOP candidate has anywhere near the YouTube, Facebook or MySpace presence of Sen. Barack Obama, for example. A GOP strategist who headed President Bush's 2004 Internet campaign says: "We're losing the Web right now."

Buttressing the above story, Obama's campaign has successfully use the Internet to to identify and turnout large numbers of volunteers in New Hampshire even in bad weather. But there are still questions about how closely virtual and real support track each other.

A new cadre of evangelical preachers has expanded its agenda to include global warming. And while it retains some of the same political touchstones as the generation of evangelical religious leaders before it: opposition to abortion and gay marriage, it isn't as politically active as its predecessors who included the late Rev. Jerry Falwell.

Rev. Jerry Falwell saw the law school at Liberty University, the institution he founded, as a way to alter public policy and the laws of the land by salting the nation's legal and government institutions with Bible-believing Christians of his own making.

A Republican effort to stop alleged voter fraud may have morphed into an effort within the Justice Department to suppress minority voters, according to congressional investigators looking into the matter.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez, the Chicago-area Democrat, has been a leading voice for immigration in his 14 years in the House and now in his final term before retiring has a chance, as one the House's lead negotiators on the issue, to finally change the laws in the direction he seeks though he acknowledges he could leave empty-handed.

The killing of Poland's top law-enforcement officer nine years ago is a crime that Polish officials allege was the doing of a Glenview, Ill. businessman and the Polish government successfully enlisted the Bush Administration's support in arresting Edward Mazur. But his lawyer says the Polish-American businessman has been framed.